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BriEFly
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Casey Stoner is “happy
to relax” at home in Australia and
is not planning any two-wheeled
comebacks. The two-time MotoGP
champion wrote a column for BT
Sport, but has confirmed that he
might be doing a one-off test for
Honda later this season.
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The age of 21 might seem
a little bit young to have a biography
launched but Marc Marquez is
not your average 21-year-old. The
World Champion’s life story, written
by the highly respected Spanish
sports journalist Emilio Perez de
Rozas, was launched in Italy. Former
500cc and 250cc World champion
Freddie Spencer was on hand to
help launch the tome.
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Jack Miller is becoming
known as a man to speak his mind.
Of his two point penalty he said,
“[Race Director] Mr Webb talked
to me and I got two Penalty Points
and I was surprised that I didn’t get
more once I started swearing. I was
waiting for the third one to be added
on at the end!”
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Andrea Iannone set a
new top speed mark at Mugello.
The Italian clocked a staggering
349.6kmh (217.213mph) at the speed
trap in the third Practice session,
a hair faster than Dani Pedrosa
achieved five years ago. But
according to Brembo’s telemetry,
Crazy Joe was still accelerating and
was getting close to 360 before he
hit the picks ...
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BMW has returned to
the winner’s circle at the Isle of
Man TT. Michael Dunlop rode his
S1000RR to victory in the Superbike
race, 75 years after BMW’s last win
at the famed Island track.
JORGE MAKES A FIGHT OF IT
MOTOGP >>> nEWs
Jorge Lorenzo threw everything he had
at Marc Marquez at Mugello but even
that was not enough to stop the World
Champion taking his sixth straight win.
Lorenzo led from the opening lap and
when Marquez closed on his rear wheel
mid-race, anticipation was high that
there would be fireworks. There were;
the two Spaniards put on a thrilling
battle, but Marquez completed the
final lap just far enough ahead to stop
Lorenzo making a last-second lunge.
Marquez was aided by a late change
in gearing to his Honda, a higher sixth
giving him vital edge on Mugello’s
330kmh-plus front straight.
“Probably in the last corner I should
have stayed more in the inside to try to
overtake him on the inside line,” Lorenzo
said post-race, “but I made a mistake
and went wider and it was impossible to
overtake him on the straight.”
On home turf Valentino Rossi was
third, a brilliant result from a man who
qualified 10th, and Dani Pedrosa. The
Repsol Honda man was off the pace,
and struggled in all but one Practice
session, as he continues to recover from
recent surgery for arm pump.
Pol Espargaro continued his brilliant
rookie season with fifth ahead of Andrea
Dovizioso.
Stefan Bradl has the toughest
weekend, with a huge crash in the
Sunday warm-up and being taking out
by Cal Crutchlow’s spinning Ducati in
the race.
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